As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2013
Registration No. 333-192085
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM F-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Autohome Inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Not Applicable
(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)
Cayman Islands | 7374 | Not Applicable | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
10th Floor Tower B, CEC Plaza
3 Dan Ling Street
Haidian District, Beijing 100080
The People’s Republic of China
(+86) 10-5985-7001
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
Law Debenture Corporate Services Inc.
400 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10017
(+1) 212-750-6474
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Z. Julie Gao, Esq. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP c/o 42/F, Edinburgh Tower, The Landmark 15 Queen’s Road Central Hong Kong (+852) 3740-4700 |
Weiheng Chen, Esq. Steven V. Bernard, Esq. Kefei Li, Esq. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. Unit 1001, 10/F Henley Building 5 Queen’s Road Central Hong Kong (+852) 3972-4955 |
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: as soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. ¨
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Title of each class of securities to be registered |
Proposed maximum offering price(1) |
Amount of registration fee | ||
Class A Ordinary Shares, par value $0.01 per share(2)(3) |
$120,000,000 | $15,456.00(4) | ||
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(1) | Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the amount of registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933. |
(2) | American depositary shares issuable upon deposit of the Class A ordinary shares registered hereby will be registered under a separate registration statement on Form F-6 (Registration No. 333- ). Each American depositary share represents Class A ordinary shares. |
(3) | Includes Class A ordinary shares that are issuable upon the exercise of the underwriters’ option to acquire additional shares. Also includes Class A ordinary shares initially offered and sold outside the United States that may be resold from time to time in the United States either as part of their distribution or within 40 days after the later of the effective date of this registration statement and the date the shares are first bona fide offered to the public. These Class A ordinary shares are not being registered for the purpose of sales outside the United States. |
(4) | Previously paid. |
The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The sole purpose of this amendment is to amend the exhibit index and to file Exhibit 99.5 to the registration statement. No other changes have been made to the registration statement. Accordingly, this amendment consists only the face page, this explanatory note and Part II of the registration statement.
PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences or committing a crime. Our articles of association provide for indemnification of officers and directors for losses, damages, costs and expenses incurred in their capacities as such, except through their own dishonesty, wilful default or fraud.
Pursuant to the indemnification agreements the form of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this Registration Statement, we will agree to indemnify our directors and officers against certain liabilities and expenses incurred by such persons in connection with claims made by reason of their being such a director or officer.
The underwriting agreement, the form of which will be filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Registration Statement, will also provide for indemnification by the underwriters of us and our officers and directors for certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act, but only to the extent that such liabilities are caused by information relating to the underwriters furnished to us in writing expressly for use in this registration statement and certain other disclosure documents.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
ITEM 7. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES.
During the past three years, we have issued the following securities.
Grantees |
Date of Sale or Issuance |
Number of Securities |
Consideration | |||
Participants of our 2011 Share Incentive Plan and 2013 Share Incentive Plan | May 6, 2011 October 8, 2011 May 27, 2013 October 22, 2013 November 4, 2013 |
Options to acquire 8,668,000 ordinary shares(2)
400,000 restricted shares |
Past and future services to our company as directors or employees(1)
Exercise price is US$2.20 per share |
(1) | We recorded share-based compensation expenses of RMB13.0 million, RMB29.1 million (US$4.8 million) and RMB17.1 million (US$2.8 million) in connection with the option grants for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2012 and the nine months ended September 30, 2013, respectively. |
(2) | Options to purchase 990,000 ordinary shares have been forfeited. |
No underwriters were involved in the foregoing issuances of securities.
We believe that the above issuances were exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act as we are a foreign private issuer, the issuance was made in an offshore transaction and to our knowledge, none of the grantees was a U.S. person.
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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.
(a) | Exhibits |
See Exhibit Index beginning on page II-7 of this registration statement.
The agreements included as exhibits to this registration statement contain representations and warranties by each of the parties to the applicable agreement. These representations and warranties were made solely for the benefit of the other parties to the applicable agreement and (a) were not intended to be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate; (b) may have been qualified in such agreement by disclosures that were made to the other party in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement; (c) may apply contract standards of “materiality” that are different from “materiality” under the applicable securities laws; and (d) were made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement.
We acknowledge that, notwithstanding the inclusion of the foregoing cautionary statements, we are responsible for considering whether additional specific disclosures of material information regarding material contractual provisions are required to make the statements in this registration statement not misleading.
(b) | Financial Statement Schedules |
Schedules have been omitted because the information required to be set forth therein is not applicable or is shown in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:
(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant under Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
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(3) For the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness; provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.
(4) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:
(a) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
(b) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;
(c) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and
(d) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Beijing, China, on November 7, 2013.
AUTOHOME INC. | ||
By: |
/S/ JAMES ZHI QIN | |
Name: James Zhi Qin | ||
Title: Director and Chief Executive Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature |
Title |
Date | ||
* Name: Timothy Y. (Tim) Chen |
Chairman of the Board and Director |
November 7, 2013 | ||
/S/ JAMES ZHI QIN Name: James Zhi Qin |
Director and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |
November 7, 2013 | ||
* Name: Andrew Penn |
Director |
November 7, 2013 | ||
* Name: Xiang Li |
Director and President |
November 7, 2013 | ||
/S/ HENRY HON Name: Henry Hon |
Director and Co-Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
November 7, 2013 | ||
* Name: Nicholas Yik Kay Chong |
Co-Chief Financial Officer |
November 7, 2013 | ||
* Name: Gabriel Li |
Director |
November 7, 2013 | ||
* Name: Amy Segler, on behalf of Law Debenture Corporate Service Inc. Title: Service of Process Officer |
Authorized Representative in the United States |
November 7, 2013 |
* By: |
/S/ JAMES ZHI QIN | |
Name: James Zhi Qin | ||
Attorney-in-fact |
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AUTOHOME INC.
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit Number |
Description of Document | |
1.1* | Form of Underwriting Agreement | |
3.1† | Third Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant, adopted on October 17, 2011 and amended on November 4, 2013 | |
3.2† | Form of Fourth Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Registrant (effective upon the closing of this offering) | |
4.1* | Registrant’s Specimen American Depositary Receipt (included in Exhibit 4.3) | |
4.2† | Registrant’s Specimen Certificate for Ordinary Shares | |
4.3* | Form of Deposit Agreement, among the Registrant, the depositary and holders of the American Depositary Receipts | |
4.4† | Amended and Restated Sequel Shareholders Agreement dated as of June 30, 2011 | |
4.5† | Restated Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Autohome Information dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.6† | Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Hongyuan Information dated November 8, 2010 | |
4.7† | Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Chengshi Advertising dated November 12, 2010 | |
4.8† | Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Autohome Advertising dated September 21, 2010 | |
4.9† | Restated Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.10† | Restated Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.11† | Restated Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.12† | Restated Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Autohome Information and Zhi Qin dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.13† | Restated Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Autohome Information and Zheng Fan dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.14† | Restated Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Autohome Information and Xiang Li dated June 7, 2011 | |
4.15† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Autohome Information and Hongyuan Information dated November 8, 2010 | |
4.16† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Autohome Information and Chengshi Advertising dated November 12, 2010 | |
4.17† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Autohome Information and Autohome Advertising dated September 21, 2010 | |
4.18† | Restated Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated August 23, 2011 | |
4.19† | Restated Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated August 23, 2011 |
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Exhibit Number |
Description of Document | |
4.20† | Restated Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated August 23, 2011 | |
4.21† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Autohome Information dated November 8, 2010 regarding Hongyuan Information | |
4.22† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Autohome Information dated November 12, 2010 regarding Chengshi Advertising | |
4.23† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Autohome Information dated September 21, 2010 regarding Autohome Advertising | |
4.24† | Power of Attorney issued by Zhi Qin dated April 3, 2013 regarding Autohome Information | |
4.25† | Power of Attorney issued by Zheng Fan dated April 3, 2013 regarding Autohome Information | |
4.26† | Power of Attorney issued by Xiang Li dated April 3, 2013 regarding Autohome Information | |
4.27† | Power of Attorney issued by Autohome Information dated April 3, 2013 regarding Hongyuan Information | |
4.28† | Power of Attorney issued by Autohome Information dated April 3, 2013 regarding Chengshi Advertising | |
4.29† | Power of Attorney issued by Autohome Information dated April 3, 2013 regarding Autohome Advertising | |
4.30† | Supplementary Agreement to Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Hongyuan Information and Autohome WFOE dated July 22, 2011 | |
4.31† | Supplementary Agreement to Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Chengshi Advertising dated July 22, 2011 | |
4.32† | Supplementary Agreement to Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome Advertising and Autohome WFOE dated July 22, 2011 | |
4.33† | Supplementary Agreement to Restated Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome Information and Autohome WFOE dated July 22, 2011 | |
4.34† | Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Shanghai Advertising dated December 31, 2011 | |
4.35† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated December 31, 2011 | |
4.36† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated December 31, 2011 | |
4.37† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated December 31, 2011 | |
4.38† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Shanghai Advertising and Zhi Qin dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.39† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Shanghai Advertising and Zheng Fan dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.40† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Shanghai Advertising and Xiang Li dated July 2, 2012 |
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Exhibit Number |
Description of Document | |
4.41† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.42† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.43† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.44† | Power of Attorney issued by Zhi Qin dated April 3, 2013 regarding Shanghai Advertising | |
4.45† | Power of Attorney issued by Zheng Fan dated April 3, 2013 regarding Shanghai Advertising | |
4.46† | Power of Attorney issued by Xiang Li dated April 3, 2013 regarding Shanghai Advertising | |
4.47† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.48† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.49† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated July 2, 2012 | |
4.50† | Exclusive Technology Consulting and Service Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Guangzhou Advertising dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.51† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.52† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.53† | Loan Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.54† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Guangzhou Advertising and Zhi Qin dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.55† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Guangzhou Advertising and Zheng Fan dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.56† | Equity Option Agreement among Autohome WFOE, Guangzhou Advertising and Xiang Li dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.57† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zhi Qin dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.58† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Zheng Fan dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.59† | Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between Autohome WFOE and Xiang Li dated May 8, 2012 | |
4.60† | Power of Attorney issued by Zhi Qin dated April 3, 2013 regarding Guangzhou Advertising | |
4.61† | Power of Attorney issued by Zheng Fan dated April 3, 2013 regarding Guangzhou Advertising | |
4.62† | Power of Attorney issued by Xiang Li dated April 3, 2013 regarding Guangzhou Advertising | |
4.63† | Investors Rights Agreement among the Registrant, Telstra Holdings Pty Ltd and certain minority shareholders of the Registrant dated November 4, 2013 | |
4.64† | Share Purchase Agreement among the Registrants, Telstra Holdings Pty Ltd, West Crest Limited, Jiang Lan, and remaining shareholders of the Registrant dated as of November 4, 2013 | |
5.1† | Form of Opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman | |
8.1† | Form of Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP regarding certain U.S. tax matters | |
8.2† | Form of Opinion of Conyers Dill & Pearman regarding certain Cayman Islands tax matters | |
10.1† | 2011 Share Incentive Plan | |
10.2† | 2013 Share Incentive Plan | |
10.3† | Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Registrant and its directors and officers | |
10.4* | English Translation of Form of Employment Agreement between Autohome WFOE and an executive officer of the Registrant | |
21.1† | Subsidiaries of Autohome Inc. |
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Exhibit Number |
Description of Document | |
23.1† | Consent of Ernst & Young Hua Ming LLP, independent registered public accounting firm | |
23.2† | Consent of Conyers Dill & Pearman (included in Exhibit 5.1 and Exhibit 8.2) | |
23.3† | Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 8.1) | |
23.4† | Consent of TransAsia Lawyers | |
23.5† | Consent of iResearch | |
23.6† | Consent of Beijing Nielsen Online Information Consulting Co., Ltd. | |
23.7† | Consent of Ya-Qin Zhang | |
23.8† | Consent of Ted Tak-Tai Lee | |
24.1† | Powers of Attorney (included on signature page of this registration statement) | |
99.1† | Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of the Registrant | |
99.2† | Form of Opinion of TransAsia Lawyers regarding certain PRC law matters | |
99.3† | Revised Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1, dated June 14, 2012 | |
99.4† | Revised Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1, dated September 14, 2012 | |
99.5 | Revised Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1, dated April 24, 2012 |
* | To be filed by amendment. |
† | Previously filed. |
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